The Opeongo Hills (sometimes called the Opeongo Mountains or Madawaska Highlands , particularly for the easternmost hills) are a range of hills in Southern Ontario , near Algonquin Provincial Park . The hills stretch from Opeongo Lake in Algonquin Park in the west, along the Madawaska and Opeongo Rivers , towards the Opeongo Colonization Road , and extending towards the Deacon Escarpment (north of Killaloe, Ontario in Renfrew County ), Bonnechere, Ontario , and Dacre in the east. To the east of the Opeongo Hills lie the Madawaska River valley, the Mississippi River Valley , and the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben along the Ottawa River . Its tallest peak is roughly 7 km northeast of Highway 60 . At roughly 586 meters, it is the tallest point in Southern Ontario . The community of Foymount (along the former Highway 512 , the Opeongo Line ) is one of the highest settlements in Southern Ontario.
15-733: The Opeongo Hills are a continuation of the Laurentian Highlands , which extend into Eastern Ontario , towards Gananoque , and across the Ottawa River Valley into Quebec , and the Laurentian Mountains , which continue parallel to the St. Lawrence River , north of Montreal , Trois-Rivières and Quebec City . The geography in this area of Central Ontario is dotted with rolling hills and forests with streams , lakes , and small waterfalls , typical of
30-400: A peneplain of modern relief. A peneplain with the occasional moderately high monadnocks left behind during the peneplanation of the rest of the surface. The erosion of the region must have been far advanced in prehistoric times, even practically completed, because the even peneplain surface is overlapped by fossiliferous marine strata from an early geological date, Cambrian . This shows that
45-637: A place in the Canadian Shield . The first European explorer to visit the region is Samuel de Champlain , in 1615, while exploring the area with the Huron natives . When settlers first started arriving in the area in the late 1790s and early 19th century, land areas were given to settlers by the Canadian Land and Emigration Company for settlement and farming. The soils of the area were not perfectly suited for farming, but small-scale agriculture
60-595: Is the province of the Laurentian Upland which projects into the United States west and south of Lake Superior . This upland, part of the Canadian Shield along with the Adirondacks , is a greatly deformed structure and is composed primarily of igneous and metamorphic crystalline rocks commonly associated with a rugged landscape. At some prehistoric period, this had a strong relief, but today
75-536: Is the highest peak in the Laurentian Mountains , Quebec , Canada at 1,166 m (3,825 ft). It is located in the La Côte-de-Beaupré RCM , 64 kilometres (40 mi) north east of Quebec City and 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of Saint-Tite-des-Caps in the Réserve faunique des Laurentides. The peak is named after Raoul Blanchard (1877-1965), a geographer who had significant interest in
90-802: The scarps and to stretch from the Gatineau River in the west (mean elevation 400 m) some 550 km to the Saguenay River in the northeast. Here it attains its maximum elevation north of Quebec City in the Réserve faunique des Laurentides (over 1000 m). Individual summits rise above the plateau surface: Mont Sir Wilfrid (783 m) and Mont Tremblant in the west, Mont Sainte-Anne (815 m) at Quebec, Mont Raoul Blanchard (1166 m), Mont Bleu (1052 m) and Mont des Conscrits (1006 m) in Réserve faunique des Laurentides. Cap Tourmente (579 m) and Mont des Éboulements (770 m) are dramatic examples of
105-642: The valleys of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers , the south-facing escarpments of the Shield give the appearance of mountains 500–800 meters high; looking across the plateau, the relief is more moderate and subdued. These scarps mark the dramatic southern edge of this Upland region, of which Mont Raoul Blanchard is the highest peak. Although the other limits are less well defined, this Laurentian Region in Quebec may be considered to extend 100–200 km northward from
120-570: The Canadian Shield, the Adirondack Mountains of New York State might also be considered an extension of the Laurentian Upland. The Laurentian Upland is primarily made up of ancient Precambrian igneous , metamorphic , and sedimentary rock. With the exception of the river valleys and lacustrine basins, it is a rolling to mountainous peneplain that ranges from 800 to 1400 feet above sea level. The Superior Upland
135-525: The Laurentian Upland as the larger general upland area of the Canadian Shield. The Laurentian Region, as recognized by Natural Resources Canada, is part of the plateau and dissected southern rim of the Canadian Shield in the province of Québec . It is a western extension of the Laurentian Mountains , and continues across the Ottawa Valley into Ontario as the Opeongo Hills . Viewed from
150-524: The Opeongo Hills include: Laurentian Highlands The Laurentian Upland (or Laurentian Highlands ) is a physiographic region which, when referred to as the "Laurentian Region" or the Grenville geological province , is recognized by Natural Resources Canada as one of five provinces of the larger Canadian Shield physiographic division. The United States Geological Survey recognizes
165-519: The depression of the region beneath an ancient sea took place after a long existence as dry land. The extent of the submergence and the area over which the Palaeozoic strata were deposited are unknown. Because of the renewed elevation without deformation, erosion in later periods has stripped off an undetermined amount of the covering strata. The valleys by which the uplands are here and there trenched to moderate depth appear to be, in part at least,
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#1732772386766180-632: The scarp face as it drops precipitously to the St Lawrence River. The more general Laurentian Upland Province may be considered to extend over a larger area of the Canadian Shield, into Northwestern Ontario and parts of Northern Minnesota , Wisconsin , Michigan , and New York State , and is recognized by the United States Geological Survey to include the Superior Upland . As a southern extension of
195-467: The upland as a whole is gently rolling with the inter-streams surfaces being plateau-like in their evenness. Here they have elevations of 1,400 to 2,300 feet (700 m) in their higher areas, such as the Misquah Hills and Huron Mountains . In this province, we find a part of those ancient mountains regions that were initiated by crustal deformation and then reduced by a long continued erosion to
210-685: The work of streams that have been superposed upon the peneplain through the now removed cover of stratified rocks. Glaciation has strongly scoured away the deeply weathered soils that presumably existed here in preglacial time. It left behind firm and rugged ledges in the low hills and swells of the ground and spread an irregular drift cover over the lower parts, whereby the drainage is generally disordered being deposited in lakes and swamps and elsewhere rushing down rocky rapids. 46°26′N 74°59′W / 46.433°N 74.983°W / 46.433; -74.983 Mont Raoul Blanchard Mount Raoul Blanchard ( French : Mont Raoul-Blanchard )
225-472: Was able to be conducted on the land. Today, the Opeongo Hills are crossed by many provincial highways , many of which still follow the original Historic Colonization Roads . Below is a list of communities and municipalities located in the Opeongo Hills, from west to east Below is a list of Conservation areas , Provincial and National parks located in the Opeongo Hills Roads that cross
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